1 Children’s Trust Fund Fiscal Year 2019 Annual Report PO Box 1641 Jefferson City, MO 65102-1641 573.751.5147 • FAX: 573.751.0254 [email protected] • ctf4kids.org Missouri’s Foundation For Child Abuse Prevention Strong Families, Safe Kids Children’s Trust Fund Message from the Director Home Visiting! Home Visiting! Home Visiting! Dear Friends, Thank you for taking the time to read this message and this annual report! If you are doing that, then I know that you care about the safety of our children because where we spend our time and energy is a reflection of what we value. CTF spent a great deal of our time, energy and resources in Fiscal Year 2019 on home visiting. We believe that home visiting offers incredible potential to prevent child abuse and neglect. The best part is that home visiting doesn’t just fulfill CTF’s mission—it also improves child health, maternal health and school readiness! The way I see it, when we invest in home visiting, we aren’t just investing in our mission—we are investing in a much larger mission that is truly shared by all Missourians. We all want safe, healthy and educated children and families. This last year, all roads seemed to begin and end with home visiting. When friends and colleagues would ask me what I was working on, I would often say “Home visiting! Home Visiting! Home Visiting!” CTF released a report this year, Expanding and Enhancing Home Visiting in Missouri, which contains a series of recommendations for our state to create the strongest and smartest home visiting system possible. The essence of the report is that the state agencies that fund home visiting have to work together to maximize our impact! Our collaboration must become deeper and more effective. We need shared outcomes, improved accountability and coherent funding structures for meeting the needs of vulnerable children in rural and urban communities. We also increased our financial investment in home visiting this year, awarding $393,000 in first year funding to home visiting agencies throughout the state—specifically targeting Missouri communities that had little to no state-funded home visiting services. Home visiting funding in FY 2020 will total nearly $900,000. Because of how important we believe home visiting is to our mission, CTF will continue to push the envelope on home visiting for the next several years. Some people might not like what we are doing! Change is hard but our children deserve excellence—and excellence only happens when we challenge the status quo and seek to be better. We will not rest until Missouri has one of the strongest home visiting systems in the nation—until we are sure that we have maximized the funding we currently have and advocated for what our children deserve. Take care, Emily van Schenkhof Executive Director [email protected]573-751-9301 ANNUAL REPORT Fiscal Year 2019 (July 1, 2018 – June 30, 2019) ‘Excellent’ Audit The Missouri State Auditor conducted an audit of the Children’s Trust Fund during Spring 2019 and delivered an Excellent review: “The audit results indicate this entity is very well managed. The report contains no findings. In addition, if applicable, prior recommendations have been implemented.”
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1Children’s Trust Fund Fiscal Year 2019 Annual Report
Message from the DirectorHome Visiting! Home Visiting! Home Visiting!
Dear Friends,Thank you for taking the time to read this message and this annual report! If you are doing that, then I know that you care about the safety of our children because where we spend our time and energy is a reflection of what we value.
CTF spent a great deal of our time, energy and resources in Fiscal Year 2019 on home visiting. We believe that home visiting offers incredible potential to prevent child abuse and neglect. The best part is that home visiting doesn’t just fulfill CTF’s mission—it also improves child health, maternal health and school readiness! The way I see it, when we invest in home visiting, we aren’t just investing in our mission—we are investing in a much larger mission that is truly shared by all Missourians. We all want safe, healthy and educated children and families.
This last year, all roads seemed to begin and end with home visiting. When friends and colleagues would ask me what I was working on, I would often say “Home visiting! Home Visiting! Home Visiting!” CTF released a report this year, Expanding and Enhancing Home Visiting in Missouri, which contains a series of recommendations for our state to create the strongest and smartest home visiting system possible. The essence of the report is that the state agencies that fund home visiting have to work together to maximize our impact! Our collaboration must become deeper and more effective. We need shared outcomes, improved accountability and coherent funding structures for meeting the needs of vulnerable children in rural and urban communities.
We also increased our financial investment in home visiting this year, awarding $393,000 in first year funding to home visiting agencies throughout the state—specifically targeting Missouri communities that had little to no state-funded home visiting services. Home visiting funding in FY 2020 will total nearly $900,000.
Because of how important we believe home visiting is to our mission, CTF will continue to push the envelope on home visiting for the next several years. Some people might not like what we are doing! Change is hard but our children deserve excellence—and excellence only happens when we challenge the status quo and seek to be better. We will not rest until Missouri has one of the strongest home visiting systems in the nation—until we are sure that we have maximized the funding we currently have and advocated for what our children deserve.
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POLICY• Released report:
• Expanding and Enhancing Home Visiting in Missouri An Analysis by the Missouri Children’s Trust Fund (CTF) – March 2019
• https://ctf4kids.org/2019/04/expanding-enhancing-home-visiting-in-missouri/• Contains recommendations for how to strengthen Missouri’s home visiting
system• Advocated for $3 million increase in funding for Department of Social Services (DSS)
home visiting to allow these services to be offered statewide for high risk families
Home Visiting has Incredible Potential to Prevent Child Abuse
In FY19, the CTF Board of Directors identified home visiting as a strategic priority from both a funding and policy perspective:
FUNDING• In FY19, CTF funded 11 home visiting programs in
the total amount of $515,715:• $82,795 - 5 renewal grants• $432,920 - 6 new grants
• For the first time in CTF program history, CTF issued a home visiting specific Request for Proposal (RFP) in FY19, which the Board used to approve $393,164 in new FY20 funding for the following home visiting projects:
United Way of Greater Kansas CityPromise 1000 ExtensionNodaway, Worth, Gentry, Carroll, RayRegions 1&3$200,000
Generate HealthSt. Louis Home Visiting CollaborationSt. Louis City, St. Louis CountyRegion 5$98,864• Support for developing a collective impact home visiting project in St. Louis
El Dorado Springs R-2 Parents As TeachersParents As Teachers ExpansionCedar, St. Clair, Vernon (school district serves part of each of these counties)Region 6$94,300
Missouri’s Foundation For Child Abuse Prevention
Strong Families, Safe Kids
Children’s Trust Fund
ctf4kids.org
Home VisitingWhat is it? Home Visiting is a prevention strategy that connects trained health, social services and child development professionals with new and expecting parents to provide education on parenting and child development, build social support and facilitate connections to community services.
Home visiting:• Improves maternal and child health• Encourages positive parenting• Promotes child development and
school readiness • Improves family economic self-sufficiency• Prevents child maltreatment
Home visitors meet with families in their homes on a regular and frequent basis to develop relationships and provide vital support to help children and families reach their full potential.
Home Visitors:• Conduct screenings for depression, family violence
and food insecurity• Identify and address health care needs, Medicaid
enrollment and primary care physicians• Provide health education on preventative health
care, prenatal care, nutrition, exercise and effects of smoking
• Share information about safe sleep, breastfeeding, immunizations, basic care, medical home, sleep deprivation and stress
• Help parents understand child development milestones and behaviors, responsive care giving and positive discipline practices
• Support positive parent–child interaction and healthy attachment
• Link families to other community resources for basic needs, housing, nutrition, education, employment, clothing, positive parenting, food security and home safety
• Coach parents to achieve education and employment goals
Maternal Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) – mchb.hrsa.gov
How Does Home Visiting Help?
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Home visiting mitigates ACEs by increasing family and child resilience and
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CTF Prevention ConferenceIn April 2019, 225 people attended CTF’s Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Conference in Columbia to learn about:
• Home Visiting• Sexual Abuse Prevention• Strengthening Families Protective Factors• Trauma Informed Care
PLENARY SPEAKERElizabeth Letourneau, PhD, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health – Baltimore, MDDirector of the Moore Center for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse
2019 Community Leader of the Year AwardHalbert Sullivan,
Fathers’ Support Center St. Louis
2019 State Leader of the Year Award
Dr. Sharmini Rogers, MBBS, MPH, Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services
2019 State Legislator of the Year Award
David Wood, Missouri State House Representative, District 58 - Versailles
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Program Disbursement License Plate Partner (LPP) Grants Fiscal Year 2019 (July 1, 2018 – June 30, 2019)
• The CTF ‘prevent child abuse’ license plate, featuring the green child handprints, is the #1 choice for specialty plates in Missouri.
• LPP throughout Missouri help promote and sell the plates to increase prevention awareness and raise funds that are returned directly back to their community prevention programs.
• During Fiscal Year 2019, CTF distributed a total of $113,724 to twenty-seven (27) License Plate Partners to serve more than 12,242 children, parents, other caregivers and the general public.
“Many of our families do not have relatives nearby to help with childcare. They cite loneliness and isolation
as one of their top three overall stressors. By bringing them together for a class, they have opportunities to get to
know one another and develop friendships.”
- Donna Schneidt-Executive Director, Parent Support Services, Little Explorers Discovery Center, Jefferson City
Eliminating Child Abuse and Neglect Fatalities in MissouriAn Executive Report by the Child Fatality Review Panel (CFRP) Sub-committee on Child Abuse and Neglect Fatalities
Supported by CTF and Published June 2019
In the cases reviewed, many families were experiencing at least one, if not multiple: • Caregiver Risk Factors > caregiver substance use,
maternal mental health disorder, non-relative male caregivers in the home, intimate partner violence, lack of safe child care options
• Environmental and Familial Risk Factors > poverty, lack of resources, generational violence
High Impact Recommendations
• Create a Culture of Safe Sleep• Improve Systemic Response to Child Deaths• Improve Provision of Resources to High-Risk and/or
High-Needs Families• Educate Citizens on How to Prevent or Address
Scenarios that Increase Child Death Risk• Increase and Improve Interagency Collaboration in
Cases with Suspected Child Maltreatment• Improve Mandated Reporters’ ability to Recognize and
Respond to Suspected Child Maltreatment• Increase the Functionality of County and State Child
Fatality Review Panels
CTF License Plates
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